Paolo Colombo - Biography#

Paolo Colombo is a professor of Materials Science and Technology at the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Italy. He graduated from the University of Padova with a degree in chemical engineering in 1985 and a diploma in Glass Engineering in 1988. He was an assistant professor at the University of Padova from 1990 to 1998 and then an associate professor at the University of Bologna, until 2005. He also has a diploma in flute from the Padova Conservatory of Music.

He has held, and in some cases still holds, joint and honorary positions at different international institutions. He is a member of two academia and fellow of three international societies and has received several international prizes.

He is currently President of the International Ceramic Federation (ICF) and Vice President of the Italian Ceramic Society (2024-2026). He is in the Board of the JECS Trust and is serving on ERC and EPSRC grant evaluation panels.

He published more than 330 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 9 book chapters and holds 12 international patents. He is co-editor of a book on Cellular Ceramics, a book on Polymer-Derived-Ceramics, 11 proceedings books and guest editor of 7 Special issues in international scientific journals.

h index (accessed 20/12/2023): Google Scholar = 76; Citations = 21965; Scopus = 66; Citations = 16661; WOS = 59; Citations = 13877.

He is Editor-in-Chief of Open Ceramics (Elsevier), and is in the editorial board of 9 international scientific journals. He has co-organized several international conferences, and has given numerous invited, keynote and plenary talks in the field of porous ceramics, polymer-derived-ceramics and additive manufacturing of ceramics. He was chair of the XVI conference of the European Ceramic Society (Turin, Italy, 16-20/6/2019).

Paolo Colombo’s research interests include novel processing routes to architected glasses and ceramics (currently focusing mainly on Additive Manufacturing, using different technologies), the development of ceramic components from preceramic polymers and geopolymers, and the upcycling of industrial and natural waste.